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Marienbad, July 19, 19131
Dear friend,
Please call to Jones's attention an article in the British Medical Journal, July 5, 1913 (by Forsyth).2 A leader3 is complaining about my incomprehensible style. He is probably the farmer with the spectacles.4 I hope you have sent Loe back successfully.5 I am very contented here.
Yours,
Freud
Postcard.
, “Psychoanalysis,” British Medical Journal 2 (1913): 13-17. Forsyth (1877-1941) was chief physician at Charing Cross Hospital in London and was among the first members of the London Society. Shortly thereafter, at the Seventeenth International Congress for Medicine in London (August 7-12), he defended Freud's conceptions (Ellenberger, Unconscious, p. 818). He was later analyzed by Freud and cited by him in “Dreams and Occultism” (“Forsyth/Foresight,” in New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis [1933a], pp. 48ff). Forsyth, incidentally, was chosen over Jones at Charing Cross, even though he had been second to Jones in the medical qualifying examinations (Brome, Jones, p. 36).
The word “leader” is in English in the original; unidentified reference.
An allusion to “the story of the peasant at the optician's, trying glass after glass and still not being able to read” (1900a, p. 217).
Loe Kann had gone from Vienna to Budapest on July 12 (letter from Ernest Jones to